Location Based Content

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Does anyone know of a non-anonymous (seems to attract strange folk) location based content indexing/retrieval solution?

2

I’ve done IP based location specific content before. But that was when hosting on my own server. The code I used was:

function GeoData($ip) 
    {   
        $Content    =       CurlGet("http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=" . $ip . "&position=true");
        $ContentArr =   explode("\n", $Content);

        $Stack      =   array();
        $Ctr        =   0;

        foreach($ContentArr as $Item)
        {
            if($Ctr == 2) 
            {
                $Ctr++;
                continue;
            }

            if($Ctr == 6)
                break;
            $SingleItemArr  =   explode(":", $Item);
            array_push($Stack, $SingleItemArr[1]);  
            $Ctr++;
        }

        $MappedStr      =   array("country" => $Stack[0], "city" => $Stack[1], "latitude" => $Stack[2], "longitude" => $Stack[3], "ip" => $Stack[4]);
        $JsonEncoded    =   json_encode($MappedStr);

        return $JsonEncoded;
    }

and I got the IP with: $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']

Not sure if this will work on Infinity free though

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I was more wondering if people could geo tag content for use in a search engine, kind of like Flickr does with pictures.

4

Oh I see, I thought you wanted to direct people to different content on your site dependent on region…

I’m afraid I’m not sure about that one